The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-25
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1000 marks that within two years he can copy
the whole of the Bible, punctuation and all,
without single mistake.
A DECATUR, QLL) MAN who has been testing
the capacity Of the sparrow to Withstand the
effects of poison, gave one bird a grain of
crystal Stychnine without effect.
THERE was recently unearthed at Jackson
vile, ILL.,, while excavations were being made
for the asylum for the insane, an apple which is
believed to have been buried fourteen years.
A SOAP MAKING CONCERN advertised that it
would give away, on application, 1000 washing
machines. Norristown, Conn. man wrote
for one of the machines, and received cake OF
soap and wash rag.
A SPAN of colts ran away in Portland, Ore,
the other day, and coming to a railroad bridge
ran out fully fifty feet on the ties before either
stepped through. Then both went down in
heap and were afterward pulled out, with hard
ly scratch.
JAMES n. GLOUCESTER son Of the richest col
ored woman in America, is under arrest in
Brooklyn on charge of burglary, His mother
made her money by keeping fashionable board
ing house The son ran through his portion in
dissipation and then resorted to theft.
ONE of the new rules of Western railroad is
that clergymen making requisition for half fare
tickets are obliged to make affidavit that they
are regularly ordained, and are engaged in no
OJueT occupation. a was recently re-
ceived from a preacher at Salina, Neb., who
added after the words Il am engaged in no
other business or occupation, the phrase, But
in preaching the unsuchible richs OF Gods
word"
THE most expensive head-dress in use in the
British army, an English writer says, is the
bear skin, which lends such an imposing air to
the members of the Foot Guards. Each bear
skin helmet costs "a 9s., and lasts SIX years.
Every man, therefore, in the Foot Guards is pro-
vided with head-gear at an annual cost of Ids 10d.
Next in expense comes the leather bonnet" of
the Hghanders, which costs 81 9s 3D., and lasts
eight years, at an expense of 319d. for each
year.
ACCORDING to Miss Matte Watts, who has
been a missionary in Brazil for five years, the
people in that country are decidedly behind the
age. The men are regarded as a superior race,
and the women are designedly kept in ignor
ance. The fathers think the boys must be
educated, but not the girls. OF the 100000
women, not more than half million can so
much as read or write When company comes
in a Brazilian house the gentlemen go to the
gentlemen's parlor and the ladies to the ladies'
parlor The only way the women ever got to
see the men was to look through the keyhole,
and they did this.
Col. WHITES experiments on the resistance
offered by bank of snow to a rifle bullet,
which were made recently at Ottawa, were most
interesting. 1t was found that the Martini
outlets IlfBu HlJO a DdDk OF Nell-pdCkeu SNOW
were completely spent after traversing a dis
lance of not more than four feet. Snider bullets
in hard-packed snow mixed with ice, but not
hard enough to prevent digging into it with a
sheet-irOn shovel, did not penetrate more than
about four feet; in perfectly dry snow, packed
| by natural drift but capable of. being easily
crushed in the hand, bullet penetrated about
| four feet, and in loose drifted dry snow less
| than seven feet, though fired from points only
| twenty or thirty yards distant.
THERE'S one man in Buffalo who has lost his
| faith in revolvers. A slight noise awoke him
| and without moving he intently listened for the
| cause, at the same time experiencing that pecu-
| liar sensation which people have when they feel
certain that some is near them but invisible.
| He thought he heard some one at his window,
| and moment later form stood between him
and the dim light. He drew his revolver from
under his pillow, loaded in every chamber, cooked
| it, and pointing at the figure said: who's
| there?' quiet voice answered, ME, what's
| the matters" 1t was his good old mother who
| came into his room for something. The revolver
| dropped from his nerSeless grasp, and when he
| thought how close call he had had he made up
| his mind to go out of the revolver business, and
| he has done so.
| THE women of San Francisco are being seized
with the mania of wearing mems clothes;
| There have been many more scandals of this
| character lately than have ever gotten into the
| columns of the daily press. There is something
| delightfully."- morbid about reversing ones sex.
And there are few things delightfully."- morbid to
| which the women of San Francisco have not
| attained Nothing, indeed, shows how fast this
| gay young town is becoming old in sin like
| Paris Vienna and Berlin. The strangest thing
| about it all is that women invariably think they
| are disguised when dressed up men. Even
| the ingenious Nine. Dudevant Georges Sand
thought to enter Trappist monastery disguised
| as young man. Her failure to do this is his
toric. Sir said the porter gravely, I'VE do
| not permit ladies to enter here"
In Guttenburg Platz there is erected statue
| to the inventor of types, of which Strasburg
| claims to have seen the first essays On the
| square pedestal are four bronze plates, which
| relieve figures representing the four quarters of
! the globe The American one consists of some
! thirty figures, with Washington, Lafayette and
| Franklin most prominent, and then a whole
| background of contemporary portraits, all
| named, and all obviously copied from Trum-
| bulls Declaration of Independence The
droll thing is that the artist had no idea which
| of the signers were important otherwise and
| which were not but seems to have chosen his
| men solely with a view to their physical effec-
tiyeness. The result is that there are here in
| Strasburg bronze portraits of a number of
| Americans who probably never had so much as
a plaster castof themselves set up at home.
Two nice looking young ladies' in Massachu-
| sets town little more than three years ago.
says an exchange, looked about them and saw
that there were many spinsters in that portion
| of the country. They bethought them of a
| scheme, which was to be kept profound secret
| for a considerable period of time. They formed
! themselves into a society and adopted con-
| stitution, declaring that marriage is a humbug
| that the wedding ring is fetter and that men
| are nuisance. They pledged themselves very
| soemnly that they would never marry. Time
| passed, as it has a way of doing. Those girls
| Immediately came into good demand They
| were forbidden fruit, as 1t were. How the boys
| did long for them. To-day the society exists no
| longer. 1t has been deader than Cleopatra for
| almost two years. Eleven of those girls have
| husbands and babies, six others have husbands
| and no babies and two are engaged to be mar
| ried when the flowers bloom in the spring ira
| la"
THE reports of the Challenger exploring ex-
| petition form perhaps the most elaborate and
| expensive single work ever published by any
government, the net cost to Great Britain having
| been thus far about S265. O00 an additional
| 100000 having been recovered from sales No
| less than twenty large quarto volumes
have been issued, illustrated by about 1000 full
| pages photographic plates, some eighty charts
| ana diagrams, and many hundred photographs
| and woodcuts At least seven volumes more
| will be necessary; but it Is expected that the
| whole work will he completed by March, 1888
| The famous expedition, which has thrown so
much light on the darkness Of the deep sea, left
| England, 1t will be remembered, Dee 81 1872
| and returned May p, 1876, after voyage Of
| more than $1,000 miles The party under DR.
| Wyvile Thompson. made dredgings and sound
| ings In all the oceans, and secured important
| collections representing a host Of new dis
| CoVcrcs concerning submarine life and condi-